Voucher-check



- No. 753,480. l PATBNTED MAR. l, 1904.

- W. J. FABIAN.

VOUGHER CHECK.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 1'6. 1903. C 2l/' i' v D HOE sco PF NATIONAL BANK. y@

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No. 753,4so. UNITED STATES Patented March 1, 1904.

"PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. FABIAN, OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

vouoHEn-CHEGK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,480, dated March 1, 1904.

Application filed May 16 1903. Serial No. 157,382. (No model.)

T0 all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that I, WILLLAM'J. FABIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Voucher-Checks, of-which the following is a specification. Y

This invention relates to that class of instruments known as voucher-checks, which are now so largely used in place of the ordinary check and bill, and is intended to minimize the danger of errors in the'drawing of checks and settling of accounts.

rIhe principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, economical, and eflicient voucher-check, as will more fully hereinafter appear. 1

The invention consists principally in afolded check having a wide and narrow leaf, the outer face of the narrow leaf and the exposed portion of the wide leaf being appropriately ruled and designated to constitute the one a bank form and the other a payees receipt.

The invention consists, further and finally, in the features, combinations, and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis l a view of a folded voucher-check as it appears when constructed in accordance with these improvements; Fig. 2, a sectional view taken on line2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a view showing the voucher-check in its opened condition.

In the art to which this invention relates it is well known that in the use of voucher-l checks it is very desirable to make them in such way as to minimize the labor of handling in banks and clearing and counting houses. The voucher-checks now in use are so folded that the check portion only is in view, and every person who handles the same has to open it,

' so as to find out whether it has been properly with theseimprovements I take a sheet of paper and on one side near the lower edge print the receipt portion a for the payee, having a blank a for the total amount and above it the form for lling out Vthe laccount or bill having columns for the itemized amounts directly over the blank e' of the payees reoeipt.'` On the other side is printed a check portion proper bearing the makers name c and the name of the bank a?. Either side may have a dotted line c printed thereon, along which the paper should be folded. When the paper is folded, as shown in Figs. l and 2, it becomes an ordinary bankable voucher and check forming one wide, and one narrow leaf, the narrow leaf bearing the check proper and the wide leaf or portion .which is exposed below the narrow leaf bearing the payees receipt, with blank for total amount, and also the auditors or approvers signature f. When the parts are folded as above, it will bessen that one side of the folded check displays all that the banker has to know-viz., the name of the maker, name of the bank, and whether the receipt and approvers portions are properly filled out. The other side of the wide leaf ofthe instrument when folded should remain blank, as is usual in all such instruments, for indorsement purposes.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a folded voucher-check having a wide and a narrow leaf, the outer face of the narrow leaf and the exposed portion of the wide leaf being appropriately ruled and designated, to constitute the one a bank form and the other a payees receipt.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a folded voucher-check having a wide and a narrow leaf, the outer face of the narrow leaf being appro- 4priately ruled and designated to constitute a bank form and the exposed portion of the wide p priately ruled and designated to constitute aY bank form and the exposed portion of the wide leaf being appropriately ruled and designated to constitute a payees receipt and a blank for the approvers name.

4. As a new article of manufacture a folded Voucher-check having a wide and narrow leaf, the outer face of the narrow leaf being appropriately lined and designated to constitute a bank form, the portion of the Wide leaf concealed by the narrow leaf being appropriately lined and designated to constitute an accountv form and the exposed portion of said wide leaf being appropriately ruled and designated to constitute a payees receipt.

5. As a new article of manufacture a folded 

